Re: 2.4.19 IDE Partition Check issue (again)

[Alan Cox]

> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 196

Perfect you have revision C4, you answered the outstanding mystery about
whether C4 is capable of LBA48 or its >C4 that is

Try this
--- drivers/ide/alim15x3.c~	2002-08-11 19:33:14.000000000 +0100
+++ drivers/ide/alim15x3.c	2002-08-11 19:33:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@
 
 	/* Don't use LBA48 on ALi devices before rev 0xC4 */
 
-	if(m5229_revision < 0xC4)
+	if(m5229_revision <= 0xC4)
 		hwif->addressing = 1;
 
 }